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Top Secret!

1984

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker ...

Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Christopher Villiers ...

7.1

34,433

Comedy Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops along the way. East Germany is planning a cultural festival, and invites rock-and-roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) (but only after Leonard Bernstein can't make it). The festival, however is a mere distraction so that the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Kim Newman Empire	"An amazing range of cultural referents and a smattering of genuinely witty conceits (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The plot combines the rock musical with the spy thriller (not to mention assorted other genres), and the comic invention is fairly constant."
		Variety Staff Variety	"Followers of the Airplane! writer-director trio will probably be happy and satisfied with this effort"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"I have a friend who claims he only laughed real loud on five occasions during "Top Secret!" I laughed that much in the first ten minutes (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

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